In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly.

I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more than a man, because after all, men also speak their bodies when they write. Everything is implicated in the work of a writer.

To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a pessimistic, even masochistic tendency in women, the result of having been habituated to inertia, to pessimism.

I don't want to be just another blade of grass.

One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.